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This week on PseudopodA young man down on his luck and the old gent that lives next door - and a trapdoor in the ceiling that connects their two rooms...
It's "Repler" by Jonathan Lowe
This week on pseudopodGrandma has a story to tell you, about her daughter and wolves and terrible people...
It's "In 'The Poor Girl Taken By Surprise'" by Gemma Files
This week on PseudopodA man receives a tempting offer in a bar
It's "The Stink of Animosity" by Rob E. Boley
Last Friday on Pseudopod.... a little horror of the season...Two sisters share memories of "He who knows when parents have been bad or good..."
It's "To My Wondering Eyes Did Appear" by Larry C. Kay
ALSO: please check out the TRIO OF TERROR promo while you're at it! Three new stories by Jim Bihyeh (Jim Kristofic), Grady Hendrix & Tim W. Burke!
last Friday on Pseudopod... a little more horror of the seasonBe good for goodness sake... or Krampus will find you!
It's "Saint Nicholas' Helper" by D.K. Thompson
last Friday on Pseudopod:The Winter Solstice brings change....
It's "Widdershins" by Robert Mammone.
ALSO - a special bonus flash for X-mas:
Dealing with family relations during the holidays is murder...
It's "Coming Home" by Maria Alexander
This week on Pseudopod:That sticky black mass underground may *not* be oil...
It's "Black Hill" by Orrin Grey!
And that's the year in Pseudopod - please join us next year for more, more more...
This week on Pseudopod:An alternate future from 1905 - of cities in the vast Antarctic, overrun by an infection that leaves madness and devastation in its wake.
It's "The Republic of the Southern Cross" by the Russian decadent writer Valery Bryusov!
For those interested in checking out the 2011 run of PSEUDOPOD but unsure where to start, here's one man's best of list with 8 choices.
This week on Pseudopod...Being an artist's model is much harder than it appears.
It's "A Study In Flesh And Mind" by Liz Argall
This week on PseudopodNavigating modern Tokyo can be very dangerous for a teenage girl, even one with a secret...
It's "Biba Jibun" by Eugie Foster.
This week on Pseudopod...Sometimes, looking back is dangerous
It's "This Is Now" by Michael Marshall Smith
This week on Pseudopod....Cosmic Daddy's back... and he's hyper-hungry!
It's "Let There Be Darkness" by Mike Allen, read by Christiana Ellis.
This week on PseudopodLearn a dark secret about the Civil War...
It's "The Burning Servant" by Steven Saus
This week on PseudopodStop me if you've heard this one before - an academic takes a walk by the sea...
It's "A Revelation of Cormorants" by Mark Valentine
This week on Pseudopod...3 flash stories about the dark spirits all around us...
It's FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS X - DEMONICA with stories by Stephen Hodgkinson, Brady Golden & Peadar Ó Guilín / readings by Eve Upton, David Michel & Cian MacMahon.
This week on Pseudopod...A ghostly story from the Australian outback, where campers hear a strange voice in the darkness...
It's "The Dark And What It Said" by Rick Kennett, read by our own Graeme Dunlop
I got a chance to check out another story (actually it was 3 in 1) this weekend. I enjoyed this one much more than the first one. I think it was :Flash On The BorderlandsX.
One of the stories featured a talking dog. LOVED it!
Glad to hear it - Everyone should gives us a month - 4 episodes - to get a sample of the variety. But I still need to make a "New To Pseudopod" page to help new listeners not get overwhelmed.
This week on Pseudopod...Joyful gleemen and dour Christians do not mix...
It's "The Crucifixion of the Outcast" by W.B. Yeats!
Happy St. Patty's Day!
This week on PseudopodA desperate mission to a dying Earth to kill... "God"
It's "The God Complex" by Neil John Buchanan, read by Rashida Smith
This week on Pseudopod...This week is episode #275 - and so we bring you a story by an undisputed master of the genre...
Some young scouts scoff at the stories about a desolate field with a well, and 3 strange figures...
It's "Wailing Well" by M.R. James, read for you by David Thomas Moore.
This week on Pseudopod....Something is wrong with the Fathership....
It's "Our Drunken Tjeng" by Nicky Drayden, read by Laurice White - sound production (sure to bug somebody) by your truly and our much-treasured sound producer Graeme Dunlop.
This week on PseudopodAnother cool April morning in Hell...
It's "The Orchard of Hanging Trees" by Nicole Cushing, read by Jonathan Sullivan
This week on PseudopodThe Prophet is dead... all hail the new prophet...
It's "The Prophet's Daughters" by Michael J. DeLuca, read by Tina Connolly.
This week on PseudopodAn aging Hansel is worried about his sister....
It's "Gingerbread & Ashes" by Jaelithe Ingold, read by Pete Milan
This week on Pseudopod...Worker or exploiter, criminal or revolutionary, everything eats in...
"The Meat Forest" by John Haggerty, read by Corson Bremer.
Last week on PseudopodThey just will not stop....
It's "The Women Who Watch" a previously untranslated story by renowned Belgian dark fantasist Thomas Owen (read more about him here), presented to us in English by Edward Gauvin and read by Pete Milan.
and now, *this* week on Pseudopod:Three flash fictions about the sharpest cut on the newest thread, the latest craze that’s all the rage … it's FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS XI - FEARFUL FASHIONS, featuring:
a mother with a unique way of making money in "A Mother of Monsters" by Guy de Maupassant, read by B.J. Harrison.
a story about the real cost of haute couture in "10 Darlings and a Handbag" by Violet Glaze, read by Marguerite Kenner.
the latest dining fads, post-apocalypse, in "Forbidden Feast in the Armageddon Cafe" by John Nakamura Remy, read by Kane Lynch.
This week on Pseudopod...Baby gets into the walls. How to get Baby out of the walls?
It's "Dust Bunny" by Matthew C. Dampier, read by Big Anklevich
This week on PseudopodThe fine art of inspiration and inspiration of fine art...
It's "She Said" (no relation to Hasil Adkins or The Cramps!) by Kirstyn McDermott, read by Christopher Reynaga.
This week on Pseudopod...Run Time Error - Lives Left: 0
It's "Kill Screen" by Chris Lewis Carter, read by Josh Roseman (and some extra special guests)!
This week on Pseudopod...Two narrators tell a pulpy little tale of a Depression-era traveling carnival, a unique striptease act... and a mad scientist....
It's "The Bee Charmer of Beckett Falls" by Patty Templeton, read by George Cleveland & Julie Hoverson.
This week on Pseudopod...An obscure cult horror film finally gives up its secrets years later....
It's Final Girl Theory by A.C. Wise, read by John Meagher.
This week on Pseudopod....From the 1890's, it's a tale of people and animals, often in the same skin...
It's "The White Dog" by famed Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub, read by Tanja Milojevic.
I used to listen to this back in the day, I wish they would put all there story's into a massive ebook and sell it.
This week on Pseudopod...An ancient god and a long, long bus ride in Australia...
It's "The Rainbow Serpent" by Vincent Pendergast, read by Daniel Foley.
This week on Pseudopod...Take some time, in your busy day of refuse trading and staving off disease, to remember those wonderful, illustrious forefathers, the Americans...
It's "The American Dead" by Jay Lake, read by Roberto Suarez!
This week on Pseudopod....A son of the soil meets a monster of the swamp...
It's "Lizardfoot" by John Jasper Owens, read by the astounding John Bell!
This week on Pseudopod...Before metroplexes (and the Faustian deal struck between chain owners and the studios for their existence), there were movie palaces and run-down grindhouses and hideous things lurking in the pits of these fleapits (not fleas!)...
It's "Coming Soon To a Theatre Near You" by noted horror writer and genre expert David J. Schow, read by the incomparable Dave Robison. Get your popcorn (with real butter) and settle in...
This week on Pseudopod (last week's episode is still delayed, sorry...)A bar in Naples, and powerful drink....
It's ""Demon Rum"" by Charles M. Saplak, read by Dominick Rabrun. "Skål!"
(delayed by a time slip) on Pseudopod... now!Three flash fictions about the creative impulse that drives and maddens… it's Flash On The Borderlands XII - (Black) Arts & (Dead) Letters!
- with stories by Donna Glee Williams ("Dancing"), Kenneth Yu ("Lost For Words") & Mort Castle ("Music On The Michigan Avenue Bridge")!
- read for you by Heather Welliver, Marguerite Croft & Patrick “The Voice” Bazile!
This week on Pseudopod...A new girl in the neighborhood makes window friends with the shut-in boy in the house across the way. A boy with a singular talent....
It's "Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls" by Brian Hodge, read for you by Brian Lieberman.
This week on Pseudopod...Life is short and filled with stuff but can these punks find some teenage kicks in a pretty vacant old building or is there no future for the blank generation?
It's "The Squat" by Sean Logan, read for you by James Trimarco
This week on Pseudopod...The wreckage of a terrible storm both hides and uncovers secrets for a Korean War vet who's sister is missing...
It's "Of Ants & Men" by Charlie Bookout, read for you by Paul Tevis.
ALSO on Pseudopod this week - the ramp up to our 300th episode begins with the first part of our fast forward through the first 100 episodes of Pseudopod. DARE you submit yourself to the audio insanity?It's "A Short History Of Pseudopod: Part 1"
This week on Pseudopod....A post-collapse world where the dead walk... but perhaps the horror doesn't arise where you'd expect....
It's "The Long Road To The Sea" by James L. Sutter, read for you by Bill Ruhsam.
*Also* this week on Pseudopod - another episode 300 party favor(clasps hands behind back and walks into shot) Welcome to our audio archive of eerie, atavistic atrocities (lights cigarette), a carefully curated cacophony of chilling curiosities, sure to curdle the blood and tingle the spine. With the greatest of pride, we bring you tonight’s offering and welcome you to
… A Short History of Pseudopod: Part 2
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An ancient and future ruler, a way out of occupied France that was anything but, and an endless - if familiar - conflict...
for Veteran's Day - FLASH ON THE BORDERLANDS IX: IT'S WAR!, featuring 3 flash stories - "King" by C. Deskin Rink, "Number 21 Rue Le Sueur" by Edward Mcdermott and "War" by A. A. Garrison.